I was talking to Jennifer Filbert at the Wisconsin DNR the other day. Jennifer manages the data for the state-wide citizen's lake monitoring group. They're a network of individuals, usually lake-front property owners who monitor and regularly take a variety of water samples from lakes all across Wisconsin. The data they compile helps to give us a look at how our lakes are doing. One of the many tasks lake monitors perform is to take regular sechi disc readings. This is a universal way of assessing and comparing water clarity. I was interested to know which Wisconsin inland lakes were the clearest. Jennifer sent me a spreadsheet of some really comprehensive data and I thought it would be interesting to pass this along. Here are the lakes that recorded the highest average water clarity in 2013. In short-here are Wisconsin's clearest inland lakes and their average water clarity in 2013:
1) Black Oak Lake-Vilas Co.-37 feet
2) Pine Lake-Waukesha Co.-27 feet
3) Maiden Lake-Oconto Co.-26 feet
4) Keyes Lake-Florence Co.-25 feet
5) Whitefish Lake-Douglas Co.-25 feet
6) Eagle Lake-Bayfield Co.-24 feet
7) Lake Metonga-Forest Co.-23 feet
8) Lake Lucerne-Forest Co.-23 feet
9) Stormy Lake-Vilas Co.-23 feet
10) Blue Lake-Oneida Co.-23 feet
11) Bolger Lake-Oneida Co.-23 feet
12) Lac Courte Oreilles-Sawyer Co.-22 feet
13) Lake Owen-Bayfield Co.-22 feet
14) Millicent Lake-Bayfield Co.-22 feet
15) Deer Lake-Polk Co.-22 feet
For the 2014 lake list, click here. For the 2012 list, click here.
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